BRITISH electronic music pioneers Faithless and Orbital will unite for a night on the Yorkshire coast on August 2 at TK Maxx presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday at scarboroughopenairtheatre.com.
Orbital – aka brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll, from Otford, Kent – will open the double bill before headliners Faithless take to the stage at Great Britain’s biggest outdoor concert arena.
Almost 30 years since releasing 1996 debut album Reverence, Faithless continue to deliver boundary-breaking dance music. Rollo Armstrong, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz’s London band have sold more than 20 million albums, including 17 Top 40 singles and six top ten albums (three peaking at number one), while amassing more than a billion streams.
Among their UK top ten singles are Salva Mea, We Come 1, One Step Too Far, Mass Destruction, Insomnia and God Is A DJ.
Last year, Faithless returned to the live arena after an eight-year hiatus to play sold-out shows across Europe.
In the mid-1990s, Orbital reinvented the notion of what a dance act could do live, turning multitudes of rock fans on to the limitless pleasures of electronic music.
They have crafted a catalogue of ambitious yet accessible music, informed by a wide range of genres from ambient and electro to punk and film scores.
Since breaking through with their landmark 1990 Top 20 hit Chime, Orbital have released ten studio albums, including 1993’sOrbital 2 and 1996’s In Sides. Their most recent release, 2023’s Optical Delusion, included furious lead single Dirty Rat, a collaboration with Sleaford Mods.
Faithless and Orbital join Basement Jaxx, Pendulum, Craig David, Rag’n’Bone Man, Snow Patrol, Judas Priest, Blossoms, Shed Seven, Texas, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, The Corrs, Gary Barlow and The Script among the artists confirmed for the summer ahead at Scarborough OAT.